How To Keep Your Dog From Running Away From You - Ecollar Training

Clay here, good boy, good boy, friends, that's it, he has a conditioned collar to remember, we're done. Hi everyone, Ethan here with Standing Stone and you probably clicked on this video today because you're struggling with remembering. Ah, let's be real if you're here. Watching this video now, it's probably more than a struggle. You are at

your

wits' end with

your

little pup who won't come back to you or you just don't have the right confidence. You've been

training

your own leash. You've been doing your walks and you want the opportunity to go off-leash or go on hikes or some kind of adventure, something fun where you can reliably ask your dog to come back and trust that you'll be able to do it.

I show these guys, the backs, add up, boy, well, here, heal, well, boys, that's what I'm talking about, with a reliable retreat, a dog that can walk around and come back to us when we call. The other thing we can do is play a little fetch, ready, okay, this is another game that can often turn into a game of

keep

away

good boy, good boy, well here heels, well, friends, this guy is an old pro, makes it look fun, makes it look exciting and makes it look easy, it's not going to look exactly like that when you start and that's why we're set up with our online dog

training

community at patreon.com.

Standing Stone kennels, is where you can communicate with us while you are working on a training session and have hiccups. Everything you see in our videos can be found at Standingstonesupply.com. Now let's move on to clay. I mentioned it before he had problems and we showed it in his last video, but he's also ready to go. today necklace conditioning we are going to work on necklace conditioning to remember let's start off right so first we have clay. I want to mention a couple of things I have here. I have his food and a clicker. Use it to warm him up, put him in a good mood, if you want, to work on a retreat.

We also have an e-collar and as you can see here we have it attached to a control cord, this is for something like that. help build some consistency at the beginning, hoping this isn't going to turn out perfectly now. What we have to do here. I have the 1820. This is dt Systems h2o 1820. I have to make sure that pro tip of the day, put the collar on, that's step number one, but we're going to fit it and fit is a big thing. You want the collar to be snug behind their ears and it should be snug.

You don't want your dog to be. choking and cutting, but if he is loose and leaking around it will not be beneficial in the initial stages. Here we like to start with vibrating now for some of you, some of your dogs make me vibrate, it can mean a lot, okay, which means it will be quite aversive, right, if your dog has too much of a reaction to the vibration, it can use the stimulation we find with our specific shorthairs, they are bold and confident dogs and vibration is a really good way to focus and a great form of communication. the initial stages now, as we've talked about in the previous videos, this is not the first step, okay, we've already laid the foundation and shown you doing all of these things in different environments.

I have a controlled environment. I have a control. cord which will add more control to this environment and I have this food to work with let's start with this clay to target well

keep

your mind in the training mindset you are probably experiencing this if you are following this. With any of our training videos, you see, we do a lot of training sessions with good meals and your puppy is very well behaved, he is very focused during that meal and training time. Here it is okay, this is important for you to use this to your advantage.

Here it's okay, okay, so clicker. Marking it pointing, you're being rewarded after the fact, good job big guy, adding a little more distance here where we can here, okay guys, so what I have is my necklace, now we're going to move to vibrate, can you do he? The clicker and the food and the control cord and the e-collar and the dog all those things no, so we're going to eliminate one, the clicker is going to disappear now we've already shown that he knows here, by aiming, that's pretty easy now. we're going to be able to keep feeding it if it eats not all dogs this is going to be a bit um let's say if the collar doesn't catch their attention at all and it doesn't mean anything at all to the dog, it's not really going to help it work. as a reliable signal, so we should see that some dogs no longer want to eat, they are more focused on what the collar is, now we are using it as negative reinforcement, we teach with positive reinforcement. and then we move on to the zone of negative reinforcement, now positive negative, they have their own meaning of good and bad, right, that's the first thing that comes to your mind, what they actually mean more is an addition and subtraction problem that we're going to use here.

It's vibrate, I'm going to activate it, this will be the moment, okay, I'm going to activate it, I'm going to ask for the same target that we just demonstrated that it's good at as soon as it touches my hand. um and actually we're going to take a little step

away

from this at first, we're going to help finish, so he comes in and touches my hand and I'm going to help finish by putting my hands on him, this being. Hands on you, close the collar, that's the way we'll be able to make this easy for him, so the caller will come, I'm going to ask for withdrawal with my target and then once he gets to I close the collar that is the negative part the collar the slight discomfort disappears when done well the reinforcement-based training strengthens the behaviors and that is what we are looking to do here we are looking to strengthen the memory that he has already shown that he has an understanding when he is excited about work for something, dog food, so here's wrapper number one.

I want to take this little cup out of my hand. I'm going to grab a couple of kibbles, let's see if I have a bag of treats. I could put them on that. but instead I'm going to use something really cool as a back pocket so we can later find pockets full of dog food in the washing machine, let's see here, okay, so I have a handful of dog kibble, you won't need more than one or two, thanks assistant, okay, so I want you to be able to see, you have a good view of him, here is the necklace, here you see it, look around, good job, friend, looking around is his recognition, True, I feel this.

I hear it humming, I can feel it and hear it, that's why we use vibration to begin with, we want dogs to be able to sense here using two senses, which makes some dogs that are overly sensitive more aversive than just using stimulation, which which would only activate one sense but let's do another repetition here vibrate is here good job okay he gets a little distracted by the necklace and looks around for a second then completes the repetition this is good we are talking to him and rewarding him he is still eating, so I will continue to feed it.

Put some distance now. If your dog gets scared, he tries to run away. Having a strap or lanyard allows you to complete the rep. This is the most important thing if you're watching this right now and you're getting ready to, as soon as you're done watching it, try it on your own dog. You must understand this. He made it look easy because he completed it first. leash perfectly you need to complete the first repetition reinforcement excuse me reinforcement-based training negative reinforcement we are eliminating the mild annoyance that calls when the dog complies with what we ask now if your dog runs to the other room to hide because they get scared and don't know how to react appropriately, they run into the other room and you go, I don't know what to do, so you leave it to the caller, what did you just reinforce?

The collar turns on, I run into the other room. and then the collar goes off, that strengthens the

running

away behavior. Okay, we don't want you to want to be prepared. Know what to expect and know how to handle it. As soon as I lift the collar, we'll make another one here. vibe here my hands touch his neck it goes off good boy let's do a handful of reps and then we'll finish this this is a very very good intro vibe here okay he's still looking around trying to figure out exactly what it is that's not it more than doing a good job with it confidence with this comes with time here attaboy good job good job clay here good boy vibrate on clay here okay now you're seeing it as soon as I said vibrate it started coming right at me that's what we're looking, he already knows how to do this.

We are teaching him how to respond to the person he calls. Vibrate here. Attaboy. Good job. He is a good boy. Put some clay here. Good Guy. Good Guy. I'm using his dog food. I'm giving four five six crunchies just depending on something that your dog can eat quickly and that won't distract from the training session by anticipating a little bit because what am I going to do? I will ask you to come see me again. what i did the last five times i moved here clay here good job you're making this look easy and it should be easy timing is important we're strengthening this behavior and it's going to improve exponentially for us clay here good boy good boy now friends , that's it, you have a conditioned collar to remind you that we are done, no, this is a conditioning process, this will require several sessions, like everything else we have done, okay, I'm going to end your session here, we probably will .

One more session where we work with just him and I like this and when he builds trust to the point of almost instantly

running

to me, then we will add a second person. This should be someone in the family who spends a lot of time or a good friend who spends a lot of time with you and your dog if you have kids incorporate this um incorporate them into this too I'm talking oh maybe the four five six range is probably the lower end where they should. be pretty good able to help things the dog already knows so you can stand in a circle three people or just one person would be where it would start next and we call him back and forth one person runs the transmitter whoever calls turns on whoever is calling him is where he needs to go even if he is anticipating and going back and forth you help him and get him there but you can take advantage of this and in less than a week of training sessions on average you should have a dog that is quite reliable in responding to this vibration. or low levels of stimulation and then we can start talking about what to do in more distracting environments thanks guys for watching this is clay.

I'm the guy with the pink gun. See you in his next video.